The worst mass extinction event of all time, the Permian Wipeout, extinguished 95% of all species on land and in the sea. Occurring some 251 million years ago, life nearly ceased to exist (When Life Nearly Died). It took 50 million years before the earth approached pre-extinction levels of biodiversity. Sixty-five million years ago, the earth’s biosphere took another hit – this time literally. A massive...
Do you not see that God has subjected to your use all things in the heavens and on earth, and has made His bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, both seen and unseen?
Qur’an 31.20
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that...